Artificial Intelligence Industry News

AI Business Weekly – February 16, 2026: China's AI Independence Push Reshapes Global Technology Competition

Five stories revealing how Chinese tech giants deploy sovereign AI infrastructure from robotics to video generation while Western democracies scramble to reduce strategic dependencies

Zhipu AI Releases GLM-5 Open-Source Model Trained Entirely on Huawei Chips, Shares Surge 34% as Benchmarks Rival Claude Opus 4.5

Chinese AI company launches 744 billion parameter model under MIT license achieving record-low hallucination rate and 77.8% on SWE-bench while undercutting Claude pricing by 6x

MTN Ghana and Huawei Deploy World's First Large-Scale AI-Powered Alpha Antenna Improving Network Efficiency 30x

Self-adjusting antenna technology with real-time parameter retrieval and dynamic beam optimization increases traffic 6.8% while reducing maintenance costs 97% as China deepens Africa infrastructure foothold

Canada and Germany Launch Sovereign Technology Alliance to Reduce Strategic AI Dependencies on US and China

ByteDance Seedance 2.0 Launches With Native Audio and Hollywood Immediately Sends Cease-and-Desist Letters Over Copyright Violations

Chinese tech giant's multimodal AI video generator creates 20-second clips with synchronized audio in 8 languages but faces legal backlash from Disney, Paramount, and Motion Picture Association over IP infringement

Alibaba Unveils RynnBrain AI Model Giving Robots Spatial Intelligence to Challenge Google and Nvidia

Chinese tech giant releases open-source physical AI model with time and space awareness, setting 16 new benchmarks as robotics race intensifies toward multitrillion-dollar market

AI Business Weekly – February 13, 2026: Behavioral Prediction, Municipal AI Labs, and Industry War Over Regulation Reshape Competitive Landscape

Five stories revealing how AI moves from research labs to city halls, courtrooms, and trash trucks while tech giants battle over the rules that will govern the industry's future

Hauler Hero Raises $16M Series A to Build AI-Powered Operating System for $145B Waste Management Industry

Anthropic Donates $20M to Pro-Regulation Super PAC, Escalating AI Policy Battle Against OpenAI-Backed Groups

Google Gemini Hit with 100,000+ Prompts in Sophisticated AI Cloning Attack by Commercial Actors